Lives of the Irish saints : with special festivals, and the commemorations of holy persons, compiled from calendars, martyrologies and various sources, relating to the ancient Church history of Ireland . ancient work. It was constructed with chiselled liiuc-stoncs, in the pointedstyle, and it measured len feel nine inches in widlii. It was about thirteenfeet to the vertex, from the level of the floor. This choir contained threemodern windows ; one window was in the middle of the south wall, and anOther was opposite to it in the north wall, while a third was in the east walls were fa
Lives of the Irish saints : with special festivals, and the commemorations of holy persons, compiled from calendars, martyrologies and various sources, relating to the ancient Church history of Ireland . ancient work. It was constructed with chiselled liiuc-stoncs, in the pointedstyle, and it measured len feel nine inches in widlii. It was about thirteenfeet to the vertex, from the level of the floor. This choir contained threemodern windows ; one window was in the middle of the south wall, and anOther was opposite to it in the north wall, while a third was in the east walls were fairly jireserved, but these contained no part of the ancient nave of this church is in the primitive Irish style ; and, in all probability,it is thought to have formed a part of St. Itas primitive church. The westgable is now destroyed down to its very foundation; but, in the last century,people saw it standing, and some of these asserted, that it contained adoor-way, consisting of concentric arches.^ Of the north wall on this naveonly a fragment remained, which connected with the middle gable: thismeasured eighteen feet inches in length, by about nineteen feet sixinches in Saint Itas Church at Killeedy. The Irish historian OHalloran has mistaken the extent of Hy-ConaillGabhra, supposing it to have been only a part of the present barony It included, however, not alone the modem baronies bearingthat name, but even the entire barony of Glenquin.^ Archdall9 was ledastray by this statement, and Gough,^° likewise, for they have placed CluainChredail or Kilita at Casde Mac Eneiry, in the barony of Conillo. S Not being much more than a centuryold, these objects are not worth the anti-quarys attention. * Like the door-way in the west gable ofClonfert church, county of Galway. The ac-companying engraving by George A. Ilanlon,was drawn on wood by William F. Wake-man, from an elegant cVayon sketch, procuredthrough the kindness of Aubrey De Vere,Esq. 7 Se
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